My Headaches

I suffer from migraines. This morning, for the third day in a row, I awoke with a head-crushing headache. It’s sort of a akin to feeling like my head is in a vice and someone is inserting a drill behind my left eye. It was so painful it made me stagger when I got out of bed. It is the kind of pain where I would give up anything—save my family, God, and music—to get rid of these headaches. So I choked down my migraine medicine and by the time my family was up an hour later, I was feeling pretty good. But man, it’s a drag and I certainly know that I can act like a real sh*t when I have a headache. And for this I am truly sorry to my family who bears the brunt of this.

But, despite these headaches, I am truly blessed. I have an incredible family and a wonderful life. This morning I decided to give my headaches a name. I am going to call them, “Trouble.” So here is a song going out to my migraine headaches. It’s Elliot Smith’s incredibly beautiful cover of “Trouble” by Cat Stevens. This version can be found on the soundtrack to Thumbsucker.